You would have thought so, however they seem to be making things sound difficult. I've not really got a background of Dell servers so do just need a quick answer on what would best fit our requirements.

You aren't going to be able to migrate directly from a SAS 5 to a PERC (if we are talking about a bootable volume), but as far as upgrading the system and doing a backup/restore, the PERC's are perfectly supported.

Ok so it looks like i just need either a PERC 5/i or a PERC 6/i adapter.

Further to this i currently have 2 x seagate 9CA158-302 disks ( Un-RAIDed), if i purchase a third am i right in thinking i can create a RAID 5 with it, there's no restriction on the type of disks that can be used?

While there is no specific restrictions on which drives you can use, common sense would dictate you use enterprise-class drives (not cheap/consumer drives), and the most reliable/best performance will come from using "certified" drives (Dell co-branded, for servers).

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